Public Disclosure Notices and Public Statements
The Higher Learning Commission issues a public disclosure notice (PDN) when it imposes or removes a sanction or a Show-Cause Order, assigns or removes an institutional designation, denies an application for Change of Control, Structure or Organization, or takes an adverse action on an institution, including withdrawal of accreditation. A PDN is also posted when an institution voluntarily resigns its accreditation or candidacy with HLC. The PDN includes a history of the institution’s relationship with HLC, the nature of the action, and a brief analysis of the situation that prompted the action, as well as next steps in review and correction, if applicable.
HLC also posts public statements to correct or confirm a media report, to respond to frequent inquiries from the public or to address notable institutional matters in the public eye.
Current Public Disclosure Notices
On Notice
On Probation
- Arkansas Baptist College
- Bacone College
- Cloud County Community College
- Kansas City Kansas Community College
- Ohio Valley University
- Wheeling University
- Wilberforce University
Removal of Sanction or Designation (past six months)
- Alderson Broaddus University
- Finlandia University
- Malone University
- Saint Paul College-A Community & Technical College
- Vincennes University
- Walden University
Voluntary Resignation of Accreditation or Candidacy (past five years)
- American Sentinel University
- Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
- Ancilla College
- Art Institute of Colorado, The
- Art Institutes International Minnesota
- Aquinas Institute of Theology
- Ashford University
- Brown Mackie College-Salina
- Central Christian College of the Bible
- Cincinnati Christian University
- Columbia College of Nursing, Inc.
- Grace University
- Harrington College of Design
- Holy Family College
- Illinois Institute of Art
- John Marshall Law School
- Jones International University
- Kendall College
- Knowledge Systems Institute
- Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago
- Lexington College
- MacMurray College
- Marygrove College
- Midstate College
- Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Phillips Theological Seminary
- Saint Gregory’s University
- Saint Luke‘s College of Health Sciences
- Santa Fe University of Art and Design
- Shimer College
- Southwest University of Visual Arts
- Trinity Lutheran Seminary
- University of Akron Wayne College
- University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
- University of Cincinnati-Clermont College
- University of the Rockies
- University of Wisconsin Colleges
- Urbana University
- Western International University
